Preston Island

Preston Island (49˚23'00" 123˚28'00" S of Keats I, entrance to Howe Sd, NW of Vancouver), Preston Point (50˚51'00" 126˚51'00" N side of Tracey Hbr, N Broughton I, NE of Port McNeill). Named after Samuel Preston, who pre-empted land at Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach in 1873. According to records collected by Vancouver archivist Maj J S Matthews, Preston was a brother-in-law and employee of Jeremiah Rogers, the pioneer logger who cleared much of Kitsilano from his camp at Jericho Beach....

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